“Heads-up” PlayStation Store update 5th December 2012

Leading the way this week is Guardians of Middle-Earth – an authentic multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game set in the Lord of the Rings universe and crafted specifically for console systems. Gamers team up as the most powerful heroes from the greatest fantasy epic of all time, bringing up to 10 players together in strategic five vs five competitive multiplayer battle arenas.

Studio Ghibli and Namco Bandai’s beautiful Ni No Kuni receives a demo this week for RPG fans to have a bash at. With glorious visuals in the style Ghibli are famous for, step into the shoes of young Oliver as he sets off on a journey to save his mother.

PlayStation Plus subscribers, what a month you have! One of my favourite games of this console generation, Batman Arkham City, is your Game of the Month. You also gain access to the fabulous Vanquish and Limbo, too, which are similarly fabulous!

There’s also the 12 Deals of Christmas that started this week – remember, the deal will change regularly so be sure to stay tuned for the latest updates on PS Store.

The rest of the week’s content can be found below, including card game Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, a new Challenge Pack for Dragon’s Dogma, new missions for XCOM, an extra area to explore in Darksiders 2 and lots more!

Oh, and retro gamers might want to check out the PlayStation Mobile store today, as action strategy classic Lemmings returns! Look out for a Blog post from the developer tomorrow.

See you back here next week for more content. It should be a good one.

PlayStation Network New Content

Content may be added or removed, or move dates – please stay tuned to your weekly Store Update for the most up to date listings. Listed savings are approximate, based on SRP excluding Special Offer pricing and should be considered as a guide only.

PlayStation Plus

Batman: Arkham City – 100% off

Vanquish – 100% off

Limbo – 100% off

Marble Run Dynamic Theme – Exclusive

Plus discounts

Jetpack Joyride – 50% off

topatoi: The Great Tree Story – 10% off

topatoi – 10% off

4 Elements HD – 10% off

Rayman Origins – 10% off

Breath of Fire 3 – 50% off

Capcom Classics Reloaded – 50% off

Capcom Classics Collection Remixed Essentials – 50% off

Capcom Puzzle World – 50% off

Mega Man Maverick Hunter X – 50% off

Monster Hunter Freedom Essentials – 50% off

Monster Hunter Freedom 2 Essentials – 50% off

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite – 50% off

Power Stone Collection – 50% off

Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max – 50% off

PS3 games

Brothers In Arms: Hell’s HighwayPrice: £15.99/€19.99PEGI: 18Availability: Not available in Bulgaria, Hungary, Qatar

What really surprised me is that Catwoman DLC is included with Batman AC. I was ready to buy it actually, but it said it’s not avaible ðŸ˜€ than God for that. Such an awesome surprise! You’re awesome! ðŸ˜€

I can see that there is a 10% discount on Rayman Origins for Plus members.. but there is also a deal that wasn’t mentioned where Rayman Origins is already discounted nearly half price.. so PS+ get 10% off that deal… Also, Lumines is half price.. but what is this deal? Where is the information on that?

Wooooo! Free Lemmings and PS+ content!!! Thanks Jawad!! Are the Sega fighting games any good? Sonic Fighters and Virtua Fighter 2 have interested me and are very cheap but are they actually good? Today is a nice tight update. Can’t wait to get home now!

So i’ve heard about this awesome thing….an update that will deliver great gifts to the dedicated people of the playstation community. Then i saw this! Invizimals finally on the store….could this possibly mean that Vita users can get that game? and apart from that, no news on the Symphony of Night?

Jawad, sorry to be an annoyance, but The Demon Lord Belial doesn’t appears as free for Season Pass holders, just like what happenned with the Abyssal Forge. I hope you can report it and have a solution soon

BTW, glad to have added Batman, Vanquish and Limbo today, and looking forward to MK Vita. Thanks for the hard work guys

DJ Max is one I’ve personally looked into – there currently isn’t a EU publisher for those titles and noone has approached Pentavision with interest. The US division is also quite small and were busy enough with just the US release. All this info you can find on the DJ Max Technika Tune Facebook page.

I do hope they eventually come out as it’s a great series but right now there aren’t any plans to release in EU.

Hi Jawad,
I read that Milestone has released free DLC for their WRC 3 game on the playstation Vita but I canâ€™t find anything in the store. I am accessing the EU/Greek store. Is there any information on the subject?
Will it be available?
Thanks

I dont know if its just me, but when i hit Limbo all i get is the full key unlock, and not the actual game? EVen tried searching for it in store and do it that way. Same result. Not sure if there is something missing or im just being a bit stupid?

Also, i’ve been unable to re-download Infamous for quite some time now. The version on my download list and also all the versions on the game download screen including the PS+trial won’t install without a Psp connected for some reason. The download/install bubble also has a yellow mark to the left of it and i’m not sure what that means, if anything. Any ideas ? Cheers

How come Sonic all stars racing transformed has had it’s price raised? It was only Â£29.99 the other day you’ve slapped another Â£5 on top of it (It’s not as good as the first so w/e)
Really tempted to get Mass Effect 1 now instead of waiting for friday, no trilogy pack on the store though?

i bought tomba 2 when you guys released it. i want my money back cause i bought it and you guys took it out off my download list that’s called theft diden’t know SCEE starting stealing from ppl 2 get money
most likely the only way you guys make money is by stealing cause it can’t be content you guys hardly release any new or old games.

I have a general question about the store and the rating system. Looking at uncharted fight for fortune its had 17 downloads all 5 stars. does the store automatically give a 5 star rating when a game is bought. it seems like it does which is very misleading. Ive noticed this on other games too on the store where they have all 5 star reviews on the day of release.

With regards to the Batman Arkham City DLC that will be discounted next week. Please make sure the discounts are acceptable, as like i’ve stated numerous times, you can purchase the GOTY Edition for Â£14.95 with all DLC, so your discounts need to be cheaper than that!

Bought Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers, both awesome! However in the store where you look at screenshots one is clearly from Fighting Vipers 2, which isn’t on PS3 but should be next in the Model 3 collection along with Virtua Fighter 3 and Scud Race. Go on make it happen!

So Sonic Racing Vita is Â£34.99 on the store. I got the PS3 version cheaper than that! Seriously, what’s with all these 3rd parties pricing their Vita games so unreasonably? Sony games tend to be priced reasonably on the Vita store with the only exceptions being Uncharted and Resistance. But it’s rare to see a full retail third party Vita game be priced at Â£29.99 or lower. Can’t Sony just put a limit on how much third parties are allowed to charge on the Vita store? I’m sorry, but more than Â£29.99 for a Vita game is ridiculous.

Guilty Geeeeaaaarr, why are you still not heeeeeerrre?!!!!
Can’t believe they’re trying to fob us off with Sonic the Fighters, Fighting Vipers, and Virtua Fighter II!
They may have “fighter” in their name, and might be reasonably good games, but it still feels like an insult nonetheless when Guilty Gear is what should’ve been there…

(Seriously. someone over there just click copy>paste from the US or JP store. no-one will tell – we’ll be too busy playing it.) ðŸ˜‰

It’s been 3 weeks now since I purchased PS All-Stars Battle Royale. I still don’t have the game i PAID FOR and Customer service still does not reply to me, and now I am wondering whether or not I should go to the police with this.

I have my credit card statement with the proof of purchase there, and your customer “Service” reps are giving me ZERO information. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? WHY AM I BEING TARGETED LIKE THIS?

@Store Team and @roscoe182 : If you have already downloaded a demo, and deleted it, it does no longer show in the store pages, only in your download list. This should be fixed to show in the store pages, since the download list is really too long to browse comfortably for a lot of people.

@Jawad I bought a PSN card thinking it will come out this week on the EU store too. I think I’ll just buy Virtue’s Last Reward.

Btw, I still have a problem with Playstation All Stars the vita version. I thought they solved the problem with it. It still shows me that it is a trail version. I re-downloaded it 5 times and still. Please reply. I would buy the game again but there’s no option for me to buy it.

Woah woah, what the ****? You mean that is the Vita version of Racing Transformed?! Â£30 for the PS3 version but Â£35 for the Vita version? The retail Vita version is launching for the same price that the PS3 version did, Â£25.

I held off on buying this because on the PS3 I was waiting for the digital Vita version but that’s just mental. I’ll wait until there’s a massive discount. Sort it out Sega/Sony.

Thank you for the amswer regarding the free DLC tracks for WRC 3 on the Vita Jawad.
However this content is already out in some region’s/country’s store and I hope that it will not be another case of unexplained delay or mishap on SCEE’s part. Here’s the proof at 00:30

Jawad, last week i got no answer so i am trying again. It would be nice if you give some real answers to these 2 posts:

Jawad, your comments on pulling resident evil 2 from the store truly amazes me. So a publisher can put a game in the store, then sell it and receive the money and then remove it from the store. So i am 10 euros poorer and i have no game. This is basically theft.

Resident Evil 2 was removed from store because 1 guy couldnâ€™t change the disc, he didnâ€™t know about the keeping your finger on the touch screen for extra options.This was the first week Vita had PS1 games.People who still have the game on their Vita have reported that it works fine.At the very least people who have paid for it should be allowed to download it through their download list.

Hi Jawad, please can you respond to 67. I like the look of uncharted fight for fortune but im not sure i’ll like it so I want to try the demo. the description of the game on the store refers to there being a trial but its not up. will there be one?

@ Blog team.
Shame on you’s, you have allowed a true ‘gaming’ (cough) classic, And kind of new ip (sorta) arrive without any news, blogs, or mention, Not even Jawad tells us in his header. Why ?. Now IF your a Gamer and like rpg (ish) elements to your games, then i am sure not many (sensible) gamers won’t have played either ME2 or ME3, on their consoles of preference, But you at the blog have deemed it correct to make zero mention of ME (1) i can only imagine why, erm i am kind of getting memories of some posts claiming that other writers were just inmature or childish for whatever complaint was ‘soup of the day’, i believe that ps regrets having to give us access to this game, Prove me wrong, i mean you’s, have made more than enough from ME2and3, Tell us how the story system/savefiles etc will work, or not. Tell us something about this ‘masterpiece’.. Blog team, you have Really let us ‘Gamers’ down on this one.

XCOM DLC for me . Some user’s mentioned Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Dracula X Chronicles, that would be excellent but I would like also Castlevania Chronicles. Don’t forget that one please Thanks.

hi jawad, the indian psn store is missing a ton of psone games esp the likes of ff7, 8 and 9. That was prolly because the psn store over here was launched well after it wa elsewhere, so maybe your guys forgot to add or update a bunch of them. If you could plz look into it and put them up on the store i could enjoy them on the vita.

As mentioned on a previous page, the issue is known and being looked into. I canâ€™t provide any more info at this time.

The problem is, there is no problem. Resident Evil 2 works fine. People who are lucky enough to have it on their psvita say it works fine. It has been months that the game is pulled. How long must it be looked into and check that the game is working. Just put it back in the store and i look into it myself. I paid for it so let me play it.

Hey Jawad/Andy.
Great update this week; lots to download:D.
I have a question, although it isn’t quite relevant.
Last year the E3 conference wasn’t available on Vita, and I thought I’d ask if you could mention to somebody that it is something we’d love to see, I’d love to stream it!
Thanks.

I can’t seem to download the Limbo demo anywhere in the store. Even if I got to it’s page it still downloads the full game-upgrade.
Could you please look onto that? I’ve been waiting to get my hands on Limbo for a long time.

Side-note: I’m also one of the winners of the weekend debate but I haven’t got neither a PM nor an email with my PSAS code.
Are you guys just a little late with that or was there any problem?

I have tried to contact customer support (Nordic Film Hotline) but as per usual they are not responding. My problem: when I try to buy PS Plus – be it for 3 months or 12, I am met with the response: “We’re sorry, this product cannot be purchased at the time.”???

I have a three month trial running through a code I received but that shouldn’t have any influence as it is possible to stack the memberships.

Any trophy hunters out there, if you are getting Vanquish c/o plus later, then good luck on getting the plat, it is crazed, the story itself is doable, but then those collectables you have to shoot, frustrating but again doable, but when you unlock the challange arena, my God, it’s like WaW on vet, and all for a gold. truly a great game and good bragging rights, if you can beat it. i kept getting to round 3 forever, but i still hadn’t found all the collectables, (statues) so i told myself i could leave it at that, and blame the ‘stupid’ (lol) collectables, who am i kidding. seriously i know Batman is good, but you defo got to try Vanquish, pure brilliance, even though i am still to beat it. only problem i found is that after playing it, i just couldn’t get into crysis2, it was just ‘boring’ i guess it must be the similar nana/tech suits that were in story, or prob Are the story.

Can someone help? I want to get the Marble Run Dynamic Theme, but when I checked out nothing was added to the downloadlist. It’s not on the downloadlist, but I also tryed to add the theme to my basket again to see if that works, but I get a error when I try to add it to my basket. Now I can’t add it to my basket and I can’t download it from my downloadlist because it’s not there.

One more thing, I resubbed to PS+ and all the content I got from PS+ has been readded to my downloadlist with new dates, which means all the old stuff I got from PS+ is now on top of the downloadlist which is very frustrating if I want to see what I downloaded. Is this normal?

To those having Issues Downloading things via the Store DLC For Example and having the PS3 DLC Converted to a PSP Required DLC Please do not Download them from the Store as the Store Confuses the Download Type as the Store is still broken and will not process the Download as it should be. I had this issue with Wipeout HD Re Downloading the Fury Expansion It kept saying the DLC was for a PSP when It wasn’t and was for the PS3 Version. If you want to get the Correct DLC Then go to your Account Management. Download List this will bring up the Old PSN Store without the use of the Terrible Broken App and you can Download the Original Download from there with No Issues.

Another Note: Jawad Ashraf can you please advise me why I’m getting a Constant Error Trying to Download anything New from the Store? It gives me an Error Twice will Clicking Add To Basket then it Exits the Store on the 3rd Time.

Just please bring back the Old Store. This New one is broken and rarely proceeds with Requests and the Correct Downloads. Fed up of it.

@ PEYJ
Your code IS the problem, the same thing happened Last Year, over in the support forums, and that was the reason, Because the guy was using a plus code he had won, he couldn’t renew, Until the free one had expired, so it looks like they still haven’t fixed that.. Good news is you don’t lose any content as when your present sub does expire, you have a few months to resub, and keep whats allready ‘rented’, But bad news, you can’t renew and stack up while the 12 deals offer is on.. am sure if you get a reply it’ll be ‘contact customer services’, well that ‘might’ work, But it didn’t last year. i mean you would think that CS could bypass this problem, ie take payment from you over the phone, for the cheaper deal prices, then just activate or send you a code out, after you have let sub lapse.. but that was Not possible last year, the guy wanted to get the 12 month for Â£29.99 offer, But maybe they can at least do that much now, like a Year later.. good luck anyway.

i put the batman game (free coz of psplus) in my cart and when i downloaded i noticed there was catwomen dlc with it, did i just get a free deal and something to be happy about or did i accidentally download dlc that i didnt mean to pay for?

For those having trouble with Limbo, it only seems to work if you do a search for it. I couldn’t get it to work in the Playstation Plus section but manually searching for Limbo gave me the option to download it for free.

Also I wanted to buy “Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max â€“ 50% off” but I can’t find this anywhere on the store. I’ve searched for it 5 times but it doesn’t look like it’s even available.

@Lunne89:
BioWare which they own Mass Effect series is actually owned by EA now. It used to be a Microsoft Xbox exclusive before EA bought the franchise and the company. Remember back in the decade BioWare used to be independent company until EA bought the company thus making Mass Effect go multiplat.

@vitesseplc66:
Contact Google about that one since they are the ones that own YouTube not Sony.

RE: Infamous issue, the message said to connect a PSP to install this item, followed by instructions on how to connect a psp. Odd considering when i first downloaded it back when we got free games for the downtime it was for the PS3. Maybe something happened when it got moved to the Essentials section.

Thanks for the reply, i will try support on the forums since i don’t fancy ringing a premium phoneline.

Jawad,
I also have this 9.99 for LIMBO at the checkout, despite being a plus member, and if if I press that it then says ERROR.
Why oh why is there ALWAYS some issue or other with the store on store publish day? Its getting beyond a joke now. I think 2012 has been a downright terrible year for SCEE and their ability to deliver online digital content. Titles are often frustratingly delayed, along with little to no explanation, and when and if they do arrive, the process from provider to consumer can sometimes be unreliable. Such as not been able to purchase said item, or said item having bugs that really should have spotted and ironed out. Then to top it all off, what little is explained on this blog to resolve such issues, is either ignored, or not deemed important.
Quite simply its because SCEE are in the dark as much as we are, they do’t know what they are doing. Lately this blog just feels like its being run by the marketing department, ONE BIG ADVERT in disguise as a blog. SCEE, take a leaf out of SCEA and SCEJ’s book. Whats the book called? Customer Service.

(I know you’re not technically the person to ask but nevertheless I made a shameless copy/paste just to get the word out a bit more :D)

A little bit random of a request but could we get a deal/price drop on the DLC charaters for Blazblue: Continuum Shift? Thereâ€™s long been a extended cut of the game available with the extra characters included and the limited edition of both that, and the original Continuum Shift are cheaper to buy new than the DLC!

Not all DLC for Tokyo Jungle is on the gamepage under add-ons, like the toki toro stuff we got earlier for free with Plus. It’s on my download list no doubt, only a couple of pages down, but the store will just show time out errors and quit back to XMB. sigh…. Please fix up the store with something that can handle your download list even if it has hundreds of items in it?

The new store is really, really bad, seriously. I’ve stopped browsing the store altogether because of the unordered mess. It should show latest items by default (because eventhough that should do it already, it really doesn’t). Now I have to go up, right, into the dropdown-menu, and then it’s THE LAST item on the freaking list… Who designed this?! And bundle rock band / singstar crap together somewhere so I don’t have to scroll through loads of useless icons.

@Raydempto
I read your problem. Not sure what credit card you have but you could go to your credit card company with this problem. Explain it to them and tell them how the servicedesk reacted. They will make sure you get the money refunded that was paid to much and will give Sony a tough time.
I hope that helps.

For anyone who’s wondering, ME1 includes the Bring Down the Sky DLC, has trophies, and you can import your ME1 save into ME2, but you need to download a new update for ME2 first (it’ll prompt you to download it when you start ME2)

The Pinnacle Station DLC won’t be available on PS3 because the “source files” were apparently corrupt and couldn’t be used, but it’s not a story DLC so it’s not the end of the world.

Now if only you could revert the store back to it’s previous state so it wasn’t slower than the web in 1990 and broken like it currently is for me in the UK. Took about 5 minutes to add all 3 PS+ games to basket and now just getting “An error has occured” all the time.

The new PlayStation Store is total garbage. Even when it works it is a step backwards. Whoever thought it was a good idea needs to rethink it!

Just my opinion though. Everything else is great. All the freebies and stuff are awesome but the store lets it down big time!

Added multiple PS+ games to my cart and the store tried to charge me for Batman. Deleted the game from the cart finished my purchase and tried a again and purchase price were zero so there wasn’t really problem for me but it could be helpful for someone else or Sony to look into this.

Daaamn, it’s so slow. every button press will give me the five loading bars in the store for at least a minute. We’ve been spending so much time together, I’ve named the first bar ‘trol’ and the other bars are all called ‘lol’. I take it all back, forget fixing this new store… just bring the old one back. :/

Store continues to get worse, cant dl the limbo demo as apparently it must be in my history (great, epic addition), which is unsearchable and unsortable , not only this but the store either crashes every minute or in the case of a few minutes ago doesnt show anything in the history (its there, the placeholders are there, they are just blank).
Very strange that the Batman DLC is being put up next week and not this one, hoping people just buy it o_o?
Finally, was there not meant to be 2 other PS+ things? one for Vita and one for both, something Knights?

zxRATTLE, I had a very similar issue, did you get the game as part of the WBP? my issue with R&C and Dead Nation were solved by going to account management >transaction management >download list>get it from there.
Its the old download list from the hybrid store (its not exactly the old one but it actually yknow works), grab it from there, should work.
Gunna look for LIMBO there actually :o…yeah got the trial again, folks if the store doesnt work go do that, it sucks MUCH less.
as a sidenote, did we ever get Gotham City Impostors? pretty sure it was PS+ for America a few months ago, surprised it wasnt here for us instead of idk Limbo? seems more aprapo :X.

@Dermado:
I swear it worked for me without problems, I go to search, from search — > L –> I –> M –> LIMBO and the Trial and Unlock is there. so I download both the trial and then the unlock key as the key is on Plus. Then downloaded them both. Everything worked fine for me.

Poor releases, fragmented market, lack of responses.. Kind of wondering, how much of a improvement would it be if all scee accounts was moved to scea, and scee got closed down? if that meant that we would get things at same time as US (and same stuff), it would be a huge improvement.. one can dream cant one? (Yes, I am getting bitter at the rather poor Customer service EU gets)

Cant you guys play nice whis NIS and get the games and DLC here? or atleast let UK accounts gift those games to us in the not avavible countries?
Is the NIS not getting to release DLC in Scandinavia still secret?
Still not seeing Disgaea 3 on the Vita..

Or is it that the SCEE is stupid enough to demand native language descriptions on dlc when most countries in EU have a rather good grasp of english.
(Pretty sure its been close to confirmed that this is the issue)

Next point, when will the following PSP games be avavible on the Store? The ones whit (VITA) is not vita compatible.
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone Complex
Invizimals
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleap
PoPoLoCrois
Tales of Eternia
Tales of the World Radiant Mythology
Thrillville
Valkyria Chronicles 2 (Not Vita Compatible)
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth

@ JediKnight246
thnx for info on ME, but when you say it has trophies i am hoping you mean it has proper ones, i mean i am happy to have access to the game, but the thought of spending 50plus hours for 12 bronze trophies, it would spoil it somehow, similar to RE4.. i would really of enjoyed it more with No trophies, guess they have become as important as some aspects/missions of the actual game itself, which has surely got to be wrong. think that finding a good game that also has sensible trophy requirements is getting harder every year. Anyway as i said the game itself is whats important.

Also @ Store team, is it true that ME3 has Increased in price, actually Tripled ?.. Surely that is a mistake.? however if it isn’t then i am totally disgusted, i mean i can get what you say about publishers telling You to set Their rrp in your own store, with new games, think it is spineless, (hehe, digital, spineless.. never mind) but i Get it. I will Not accept this excuse for a price increase though. So can we, or i have some answer over this please. as really. really want to hear the answer for this one. thank you.

Oh and for those looking for the Limbo Trial and unlock version at 95MB, i found it in the unique games section. Sony should make more effort to make things simple for people because we shouldn’t have to second guess what genre they decide to classify a game as.

I just had a few questions and ideas. Is the new store going to be optimized to be as fast as the old store? will you add a sort by game name to the sort options so content for each game is grouped together. A crash reporting system would be great since it does crash back to xmb at times and would help you squash bugs.

Hmmm, yet another screw up for the new store. Purchased all items available for Plus this week and for some reason the purchase went through but the items don’t appear in my download list and I can’t add items to my cart again.

Hey Jawad,
great update for PS+, even though i have all ps3 content ðŸ˜›
i’ve got one question for you: will there be any offer on The Walking Dead or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD before the end of the year???

I’m still having problems obtaining LIMBO. Could really do with some help here!

I download the trail of the game a long time ago and played it and deleted it. Now we’re at this point where I want to get the free game with PS+. But every time I go to download the game from wherever I locate it on the Store, it already has the symbol saying I’ve purchased it in the past, and when I do go to download it, it only downloads the 6kb trial and not the demo. Obviously I deleted the demo after I played it last year. I don’t understand why it isn’t re-downloading the demo for me. I’ve tried deleting every save data related to LIMBO on my PS3, but still it only downloads the trial every time I download LIMBO off PSN.

I’ve had this problem recently, too. I think it’s possibly because the system still needs extra space during the installation process, as it might take up a bit of extra space going from download to install.

I don’t know. But I’m guessing it’s something like that. If it makes any sort of sense :/

@ Golwar
Monster Hunter games incorporate the previous edition, and add more content and graphical updates.
Monster hunter freedom unite is the newest one and therefore the best one to get because it includes everything the previous ones do and more.
Bargain for Â£4. I played it 99% of the time on my PSP clocking over 300 hours easily.

Capcom wont make the new MH games for Sony anymore…..then they wonder why they did so bad financially. serves them right.

anyway, why is the store so slow? tooks like 3 minutes just adding batman to the cart.

You need to have double the required space free. Basically the installer and the installed game are 7.5GB each. You download the installer then it installs the game and deletes itself. The game still takes up 7.5GB in the end but you need twice that to be able to install it.

You need twicce as much space as it says or it won’t be able to install, because the install file and the game file both take up 7.5gb, and they will be on your HDD at the same time during installation.

Well this is a waste of time. Guess I will just go watch TV for a bit cos can’t download anything at the moment. Not only is it slow (even slower than normal for the new store) I am getting “We’re, sorry this product cannot be purchased at this time”.

Sort it out Sony. Infact as I said before put the old store back. Nothing about this new store is an improvement to me.

I guess everyone is trying to get the new (Plus) content and that slows down the store. I wonder if that is also the reason why I see several blank fields in the new store now. The last thing that I want is the return of that plague.

Thanks for the help guys, obviously this is the case, I must have just had the required amount in previous cases then. Ill just delete some stuff.

@Azuardo
Thanks for helping man. I tried to look into your limbo query and it does the same for me (I purchased it a while back though) Only thing I can suggest is to rummage though your DL list for the trial. This new store has took one step forwards and 2 steps back!

I got the Store update and now it’s much slower than it was before and it wasn’t that speedy then, not only that vanquish is charging the full price and not free despite being a PS+ member same goes for limbo anyone else having these issues

Any word on the latest Dead or Alive 5 costume DLC bundle? According to last week’s PS Store update, it was supposed to have been released then. Bundle nowhere to be seen, only the individual DLC packs were available. Same thing this week.

I’d rather not buy the costume DLCs separately, since the bulk discount is nice. Earlier DLC packs have been bundled just fine, yet suddenly there is none. What gives?

The new and “improved” store is nothing but a joke! The old one was more user friendly, simple to navigate and easy to find the content needed…….it also ran smoothly, for me the new store is buggy and slow! Where is the Limbo demo/trail? not much point in giving us the unlock seeing as there is no demo/trail to unlock!!

Any update on the Limbo problem? I clicked download from the main PS+ page and it only downloaded a 6kb unlock file. Now whenever I try to download the trial it only ever redownloads the unlock. I’ve tried searching for Limbo and even browsed for it through Games -> PS3 demos but I still only get the unlock to download.

It’s somewhere in my download history as I played the demo when it first came out, but seeing as this was ages ago and I’ve downloaded a lot since then, I can’t be bothered to find it in my history (it also doesn’t help that the new PSN store is absolutely rubbish and painfully slow).

Right, to clarify again, for LIMBO, if you have played the demo in the past and cant download it again, log into your account, click X on account managment, go down to download history, scroll down till you see LIMBO, download it.
unless they have turbo’d the store in the last half hour its simply not working correctly, this way is considerably faster.
As for if you havent downloaded the demo in the past and are still having an issue? ell afaia no one is having that issue, but apparently going right past the description and pressing X should take you to the demo, but only if you havent dld it before.
Yes the new store sucks, yes continue complaining, but kindly stop asking if its just finding the demo that is the issue ;_;

2 extra things. one, Smith did you download the demo for LIMBO in the past? that seems to be the whole problem causer.
also irt to SCEE sucking, yes, yes they do, as do the awful robot replying email staff, and 3 out of the 4 people I spoke to on the phone, two managers who tried using “we are looking into it” and “we are aware of the problem and threads” (concerning Singstar being unwanted, the store sucking and something else), but the most recent one was actually super nice and tried to help, tried to get her name so I could request her in the future when crap happens, they apparently dont do that, so terribad customer service is expected ;(

Ryu, “single most important event”? only of this year? you mean this CENTURY O=!. no exagerate less >_>. The new store was more important, Singstar was more important, upping prices to make “discounts” more appealing was more important , taking money and denying content was more important, advertising discounts and getting the end date wrong yet not changing it in the forum or honouring it was more important.
heck the PS3 super hack play any game download key thing from earlier in the year was miles more important o_o.
anyway, yes they should do a LOT more testing with the store and updates, but lets face it if that were to happen it would have been pulled months ago and only returned when it didnt suck.
Something having the wrong icon is really pretty unimortant compared to the actual issues that we are still putting up with >_>.

How come the mass effect trilogy on the store is Â£58?
I’d rather wait two days and get it for Â£44, Seems way too much for pure digital titles.
The price for Far Cry 3 is the amount i payed for the Collectors edition, which came with every bit of DLC available at launch.

I’m a plus member and when I download limbo it just downloads the full game unlock but no game!! Also Vanquish is showing up as Â£11.99 and not free. At least I got Batman but hope the other issues are sorted out

@CostaPablo
I had that problem before on a game a few months ago. I went to the search box and searched for the game and downloaded the trial. You must be only downloading the key instead of the trial. A good number of times I’ve seen only the key and no trial in the plus section. Have no space to try this out but i’d say it would be the same to me again

Somebody at Sony has to be scared for their job right now, as the new store is getting worse and worse. Took me five attempts to add Batman: AC to my cart.

Where are the updates, which should make the store faster and improve download list?
Why is the new store design a complete failure, eg. why is there a huge ad taking up half the screen in the PSN+ section, when you already are a PSN+ customer?!
Why is the latest DLC list sorted by DLC name and not game name?
Why are the “latest” sections hidden away on the third page?
Why don’t you take advantage of dual analog controls, when in the store. Scroll content with right analog, when in menu with left analog.
Why is there no indicator, when an section is empty, sometimes you are wondering if it’s loading (see next problem) or if it’s slow.
Why is the new store so god damn slow.
Why is there not a quick-download for free items?
Why is the Apps section not properly updated?
Why do fatal errors, like people getting charged for free PSN+ games, keep happening?

Is a mystery to me, why the people at Sony can’t see these obvious problems and get them fixed right away.

Why there is ONLY Limbo Unlock key but no LIMBO trial? I got the key only, but no game. Duh?
PSS is lagging as hell, gives me server time out and is simply put shit to browse. Why SONY is changing things for worse with each iteration of new design for PSS is beyond me -_-

“What an awesome update!
I dont know if its just me, but when i hit Limbo all i get is the full key unlock, and not the actual game? EVen tried searching for it in store and do it that way. Same result. Not sure if there is something missing or im just being a bit stupid?”

I’m having the same problem as this person. I searched the whole store for the trial but all I can get is the unlock key which is obviously useless without the trial. I want Limbo.

@spagetti69 Yes, you did say it, but it does not apear in the vita store,while some do say sideloading is compatible, unless its in the store on the Vita, I do not consider it fully supported by the vita.

Can someone who deals with the actual store explain why it is so painfully slow and keeps crashing/throwing me back to the xmb with errors? (It also locked me out of the xmb and I had to reset the console..) Also why doesn’t the download list retrieve all the information it takes absolutely ages to load a pages worth of past downloads.. It’s getting to the point now I cant actually be bothered with the hassle of downloading anything it’s just a slow cluttered mess.

Why release something as important as the new store in such a state you do realise a shop needs to actually be functional for people to purchase things right?

went for rayman for vita as i had set aside cash for the 12 deals of Christmas but as thats been a non starter for me so i decided to grab this.

not had much to say on the subject till now but the store is really starting to bug me now, its been quite a while now since launch and the kinks just dont seem to be getting ironed out fast enough.

the store looks nice enough but looks are one thing it all comes down to functionality which the new store is lacking big time, it is too slow and the thing with trials and unlocks is just stupid.
personally i feel a company should not be putting barriers in the way of customers wanting to buy there products but at the moment we have far to many.

the only update i have seen so far is the addition of a new this week tab(which was needed) but far more is needed before the store is up to scratch.

Hi Jawad, your suggestion of donwloading the demo for Limbo didn’t work. I was all night browsing trough my download list with 723 items to download it.
This is horrible!
Also the downloadspeed is to slow for these (awesome) plus titles and big demo’s the store has. Sony needs to invest or my business will go somewere else.

That’s some disappointing news. The moment I seen the original Bioshock was free with Infinite i got excited..until i seen it’s for americans only. Typical. Japan will have Kingdom Harts 1.5 reMIX as a japan exclusive, Americans giving themselves a free game and the rest of us gets nothing.

I cannot download Limbo or Cubixx HD on the AU playstation store with PS+. Only the unlocks are in the download list after purchase and I cannot find the demo on the store. Additionally I would like to purchase Tokyo Jungle but the PS+ discount is not applying.

Just what the hell is gong on there SCEE? Not only is the new Store beyond pathetic when i try finding things but now its just plain BROKEN. Add to cart takes 30+ seconds and then confirm purchase took over a minute before i just gave up and quit the store.

Also, the Xmas deal for Tokyo Jungle? Since its been on there hasnt been the PS+ Discount and now there isnt ANY discount and its Â£9.99 again. Arent you embarrased? You should be because I AM!

Embarrassed to be such a big Playstation fan when you remove a perfectly good working store and replace it with this new abomination. I dont think i have EVER heard 1 single person who says they prefer this new store to the old one. Not 1 and ive got maxed out friends at 100.

About Limbo – I just clicked on the Free game unlock on the Plus section added that to cart (then 40 seconds later…..) clicked on ‘Game Page’ on the right hand side of this page and that took me straight to the trial, added that to cart which took ANOTHER 30-40 Seconds.

Honestly, how SUCH imcompetence is tolerated at such a big company is beyond me.

Glad to read all the comments about the store and i am not the only one hating it…. Come on guys brink back the old store that was perfectly fine and working great.

New store is slow, a nightmare to navigate and discouraging me to even spend money there. Nobody wants this new store so please just admit it wasn’t Playstation finest decision and make us happy with bringing back the good old psn store

Tokyo Jungle is showing as Â£9.99 for me in cart (I have PS Plus). Guessing this is happening with all discounted content. Pretty poor show. I hope this can be fixed before the deal ends but I’m not holding out hope to be honest, the whole store is dire at the moment.

Just wanted to thank you & everyone else for keeping us up to date with everything on the PSN. Hand on my heart I am a unashamed Playstation Plus subscriber who is loving every week of freebies & discounts! Happy holidays to you and the rest of the team.

Coody-Baroody 288@
store looks good but not too ps3 = more to vita ore tablets
but even wen u overlook the looks, mayor problem = fuctions missing
to long to seak ( it needed to be faster = slower )
lots of language problems ……

one ting make global europe store
langage
english – french – spanish – italian – german – Austria
belgium = french for wallonia or English for the Flemish people
(Netherlands will also 9/10 have no problem with english if better functioning store)

I don’t even regret buying Vanquish last week even though it’s “free” now. I’m overwhelmed with good games and this will be a busy December.
Thank you Fred, Jawad and Chris for making my PS experience as good as it is!
Awesome that the Catwoman dlc is included as well!

The Australian store still shows Tokyo Jungle at fullprice despite the fact it’s on sale, could this be fixed soon? The sale ends tonight/tomorrow so it would suck if Australians missed out on the offer.

The reason they whacked the price of Mass Effect 3 up (from a reasonable – for PSN anyway – 19.99) to 60 quid is in order to not undercut the price of the “new” Mass Effect Trilogy and make it appear better value.

Before the Mass Effect 3 price rise, you would have saved money buying the games individually and to cut a long story short – EA are money-grabbing arse-wipes.

If you don’t have enough space for any of the titles, don’t panic & delete unnecessary content. You can still activate it & an error message will display stating not enough space but rest assured, the title will still have been added to your download list, to download at your leisure for when you do have the space free.

yeah all in all a great month for plus but why do i keep gettin error code 80010038 when trying to install arkham city ??? everything else is cool …deleted and retried 4times i kno this aint the place but ……HELP

So SCEE set the price of the Black Ops 2 Season price to Â£41.99 when it had a suggested price of Â£35. I still don’t understand it, as SCEA charge $49.99 which works out roughly Â£31 so surely SCEE would charge Â£35??

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A RESPONSE FROM THE SENIOR MEMBERS OF SCEE DETAILING IN FULL THE PROBLEMS AND WHAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY DOING TO FIX THESE ISSUES?

having your subordinates repeating no comment over and over and over is beyond infuriating and totally unacceptable.

I personally could write a list as long as my arm detailing just the things I have found utterly wrong with the store, the network and SCEE in general starting with your downright awful communication, i wont thought because they are your mistakes and your problems and you not the customer should be finding them and sorting them as quickly as possible currently you seem to find it hard to even acknowledge the dreadful state SCEE is in.

If the Tokyo Jungle “DEAL” runs out tonight shouldnt it be fixed ASAP? Its STILL showing up as FULL PRICE on my Store. Like i said on an earlier post its never had a PS+ discount and now its back to full price and has been since yesterday!!!!!

I feel like I want to move to Steam now and thank god GAME now sells Steam vouchers. I mean this is what is it’s problem after problem. Now if Jawad isn’t replying, I know I think he must be busy with the store team fixing the glitches so I least I give credit to him for trying. Sorry but this horrible new store has to go but no offence, it’s nothing but a complete copy of Windows 8’s desktop menu. -_-

Dont bother even wasting your money on ANY themes, dynamic, premium or otherwise. I mean whats the point when our PS3s boot up to that damn Singstar app? Ive even sent an email to SCEE asking – no DEMANDING a refund for all the themes ive paid for over the last few years. I mean some people might think thats over reacting a bit but I dont and I’ll tell you why…..

False Advertising plain & simple. All themes on the Store have write ups and they all start with the line;

“PS3 experience begins with the XMB so why not customise the XMB with this theme” or something like that. But our PS3 experience on our XMBs does NOT start with these themes now does it? It starts with 2 putty haired XFactor wannabees holding microphones.

It is embarrassing whenever I have my mates round.
All in all SCEE has been amazing since E3 where PS+ is concerned but everything else is just THE most EPIC FAIL!

No idea what you mean SlvrYeti. SCEE recently added subsections for the complete new content of the last week and one for the last month. It is exactly what we had in the old store too. It offers even more. Maybe you didn’t discover that yet?

posted earlier about being charged for vanquish or batman 19.99 im plus and it should be free .. rang support told get back to you within 24 hrs no answer called them back “we didnt say that ” erm they did jawad can you enlighten me as to who is the ombudsman for the store is it trading standards ie who do i complain to as speaking to support is not much help scee have my money and cannot provide me with a reasonable answer or timescale

Jawad, I can’t download Limbo via the Instant Game Collecton for PS plus members. Only the 6KB activation download. I can’t find the trial version nowhere in the Store so that I could activate it. Please help!

HEY GUYS. LIKE EVERYONE ELSE I WAS GETTING CHARGED FOR VANQUISH UNDER PLUS. WORKED OUT A WAY AROUND THAT IS FAIRLY SIMPLE. INSTEAD OF GETTING IT THRU PS PLUS MENU JUST GO TO SEARCH IN STORE – SEARCH FOR VANQUISH AND THEN IT IS SHOWING AS FREE EVEN WHEN YOU HIT PURCHASE – IAM DLOADING AT PRESENT – MUST SAY THIS IS AN AWSEOME GAME. NOT MUCH REPLAY VALUE BUT I AM GOIGN TO TRY I ON HARD MODE AS ONLY COMPLETED ON NORMAL MODE BEFORE TRADING LAST YEAR (POSS YEAR B4?)

GUYS – ALSO ANOTHER FIX FOR LIMBO (SORRY BUT ONLY WORKS IF YOU PREVIOUSLY DOWNLOADED TRIAL). JUST DLOAD THE UNLOCK FROM PLUS MENU THEN GO THRU YOUR OLD DLOADS THRUS USUAL WAY AND GET YOUR FORMER LIMBO TRIAL DLOAD – TESTED AND WORKING

@ Coody-Baroody and anyone else with singstar logo issues.
My system never boots up to the singstar wallpaper, I have to actually have it on the icon for that to appear on screen. In fact it took me a few weeks to realise why people were getting so worked up as I don’t generally stay on the icon long enough for that to happen ðŸ˜‰
The only reason I can think of for this is because I don’t buy new themes from the store, all mine are either old, downloaded wallpapers from random sites, or come from 3rd party publishers like Ubisoft, which makes me think that all NEW ones have something coded in them to make it default to Spamstar. Either that or I’m getting paranoid in my old age….

Free (yes you heard me)FREE farcry 3 exclusive ps3 dlc,haha f**k you Microsoft you have to wait for a change,hey but don’t worry you might get it in 2 or 3 months or you might never get it.shove that in your f**king pipe and smoke it.

I prob wont get a response on here, but it says Batman is FREE for PSN+ users which I am but when I go to download it the store wants too charge me for it, So is the this blog wrong or is the store broke/wrong?